The coming light rail line connecting the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul will bring many improvements along its University Avenue route, but it also means the end of the line for an informal artists’ cooperative that has thrived for many years in a building there, says the Pioneer Press.

​Painting Zombies: Permanence/Impermanence,” the new exhibit now up at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, doesn’t actually have any zombies in it. Instead, a press release for the show states that the title nods satirically at the notion of resurrecting a supposedly dead art form.

There’s nothing more riveting than watching someone almost fall onstage. It’s the ultimate gesture of risk-taking: a chicken fight that the performer has with him- or herself, a moment of reckless abandon, of complete vulnerability, followed by the landing, and a sigh of relief.

In Mark Wojahn’s new documentary Trampoline, which screened Wednesday at the Heights Theatre, husband (and stepfather of four) Nathaniel muses to the camera that maybe the world is divided into two types of people: those who have teenagers, and those who don’t.

Matching a musical act with the right venue would seem to be a no-brainer. If you’re a dance band, you want as few bolted seats in the place as possible. If your music requires acute acoustics, you don’t perform in an echo chamber.

When Brave New Workshop premiered Brett Favre’s Christmas Spectacular: The Immaculate Interception in 2009, the everlasting quarterback was achieving a feat just shy of miraculous; leading the Minnesota Vikings through a winning season. What a difference a year makes.